Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19
NEBRASKA
IN wants a court house.

street car company Dv a majority Oh 4oo.
Lost Creek Is again seeking a new name.
This time Altoona is the coveted appelia-
ton.
Shickley is making preparations for build
ing a new seven room, two story school
house.
There Is some talk Of building a bridge
across the Loup neaaly opposite Lost
Creek.
Meetings are being held at Crete to devise
ways and means for solving the railroad
problem.
A mail service he's been established on the
Northwestern railroad between Lincoln and
Fremont.
The February board Of trade is working
hard to secure the Stromburg line OF road
with fair prospects of success.
The latest method suggested for dividing
itol. county is to cut 1t in the shape of a dia-
uoru, leaving O'Neill in the center.
Al industrial school and orphans home is
projected at Ravenna. They will pledge 3d.
eco and GAO acres Of land for that purpose.
The Republican Valley Medical society was
organized In McCook last week. The next
meeting will be held on the third Tuesday In
April.
Several capitalists have been looking over
Platte Centre real estate with a view 70 In
vesting, anu a boom is expected in conse-
quence.
A delegation of citizens from North Platte
visited Columbus recently for the purpose of
obtaining information regarding the water
works system.
The young city of York has a population
Of about 3, 800. There is not a saloon within
twenty-five miles of the county seat, and new
er has been but one In the county.
The pay roll Of the Crete nursuries averages
10000 yearly. They have an acreage Of $50
acres, and they are now growing two and
three year old apple trees on contract for one
of the oldest Illinois nurseries.
A geological survey OF the entire state has
never been made, and the subject OF ordering
Il general survey is being considered in the
legislature. 1t is thought the United States
geological survey offers valuable aid at this
time.
John X. King, a resident Of Benklemen was
recently sentenced in the United States dis
trict court ut Denver to three months i'm
prisonment and to pay a fine of nearly $500
for completely in fraudulent land trsnsac-
lions.
A bill has been introduced IN the Legislature
10 amend the revised statutes so that county
boards shall have the power to borrow money
and Issue bonds for the payment thereof 10
provide necessary buildings for county pur-
poses.
A subscription paper Is being circulated at
Liberty by the members of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union 10 raise money
to establish a public library and reading room
in that city, and is meeting with catering
encouragement.
Articles Of incorporation OF the Crete
Cheese Factory company have been filed in
the office Of the secretary OF state. The cap
ital stock Is placed az SC, 600 in shares Of 800
each. Work on the building will be COM
menced Immediately.
The farmers Of Lyons are agitating the
question of organizing a farmers club for
the purpose Of interchanging views on all
matters pertaining to agriculture, horticul-
ture, stock raising, etc. The leading farmers
are taking an active part in the organization.
Lyons has just completed a school house
which cost 5000, one OF the finest in the
county. The town boasts of the best hotel
In every sense OF the word this side Of
Omaha-the Lyons house. II is a strictly
temperance and moral town, having no sa-
Icons or gambling houses Of any kind: has
one wide-awake paper, which keeps the people
enlightened on the issues Of the day.
David City was raided ty burglars Wednes-
day night In the most effective manner. The
safes Of three stores were blown open and
sums OF money aggregatiDg several hundred
| dollars stolen. The postofice was also visited.
Here the burglars made n good haul, securing
$500 In money and stamps. There Is no clue
TO the burglars. Great excitement prevails
over tie robberies, which are the first of any
Importance that ever occurred here.
Three deaths have resulted in the Dogget
family, at Chenille, from eating poisoned
| prunes. How the deadly drug got in the
fruit is not known at present. The family
consisted Of father, mother, three children
and father.in-law. All partook OF the fruit
| Monday night. On Tuesday morning the
mother and father-in.law were dead, and one
of the children has since died.
The burglar who was shot by Frank South
ard while breaking into Newman Il Co.'s
store, at Buchard, Monday night, died We'd
nesday. The bullet from Southard's revolver
went clear through his body. He made an
ante-mortem statement TO the sheriff, giving
his name as Jesse Stafford, of Tarkio, Mo-,
and his age as seventeen, but he looks sew
eral years older. The sheriff declines 10 say
whether he gave the name OF his partners in
crime, of whom there were two.
The millers of Nebraska met in general
convention at the Capitol ball, Lincoln, We'd
ncsday night. The meeting was had for the
purpose Of perfecting a permanent orgapiza-
ton, and TO consider questions pertaining to
the interest and welfare of the milling indus
try I'm Nebraska. The association was called
10 order at s o'cloc by Mr.. Scbupbach, of
Columbus, who explained the object OF the
meeting. The first thing in order was the
election OF officers for the coming year.
Deputy Sheriff Coombs arrived at Valen-
tine, Wednesday night, with Robert simpson,